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Persolaise is a four-time Jasmine Award winning writer with a lifelong interest in the world of fine fragrance. His perfume guide, Le Snob: Perfume, is published in English by Hardie Grant and in German by Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has written for Sunday Times Style, Grazia, Glass, The Scented Letter and Now Smell This, amongst others.

As has become tradition, we ask our contributors, writers and forum moderators to look back at the last year and let us know which have been their best scents of 2018. If nothing wowed them in 2018 they could choose something new to them.
Despite not going out of my way to smell new releases in 2018, I still managed to smell a few. Nic…

As has become tradition, we ask our contributors, writers and forum moderators to look back at the last year and let us know which have been their best scents of 2017. If nothing wowed them in 2017 they could choose something new to them

Jean-Christophe Herault: For this perfume I was inspired by a very personal experience - a trip to Egypt. I brought back a lot of feelings, a lot of memories of odours. The people there use very strong perfumes, a little bit like in the Middle East. When you're in the souq, you can smell things from the shops. When you're in t…

Reactions have been mixed. Some have called it the best addition to the UK’s perfumery scene for years. Others have said that it’s pointless, unwelcoming and pretentious. But differing views aside, it seems reasonable to conclude that Harrods’ Salon De Parfums - which opened its doors in mid-October 2014 - has made quite an impression. Everyone who’s seen it has strong views on it. And those who haven’t yet seen it are eager to do so.

​Mathilde Laurent is great company. The cynical part of my brain tells me that her particular way with journalists - the un-showy insistence on cutting through marketing guff; the modesty; the willingness to embrace humour - is as studiously constructed as any politician’s modus operandi